Improvement in clothes-sprinklers



H. FISHER.

CLOTHES SPRINKLER.

No.175,063. Patented March 21,1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY FISHER, OF LEE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-SPRINKLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,063, dated March 21, 1876; application filed February 26, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY FISHER, of Lee, in the county of Athens and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Laundry-Sprinklers; and I do hereby declare that'the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The figure of the drawing is a representation of a longitudinal vertical section of my sprinkler.

This invention has relation to sprinkling clothes previous to ironing them.

The natureof my invention consists in combining with a bellows, to which a treadle and a water-receptacle are applied, an adjustable sprinkler, from which water from the bellows is discharged in the act of collapsing the bellows, as will be understood from the following description.

1n the annexed drawing, A designates a base-board, and B designates the top board, which are united by a flexible water-proof material, 0, thus forminga water-ejecting bellows, the top board of which vibrates upon a fulcrum, a, and is held up by a spring, b. 0n the top board is secured afoot board or treadle, D, to which a strap, 0, is-applied to receive the toe of an attendant. E designates a water-holder, having a feed-funnel, e, at its upper end, its lower end being tapered and passed through the top board of the bellows,

terminating at its lower end in a valve, which opens inward, which will prevent water in the bellows from flowing into said water-receiver when the top board is depressed, but which will allow water from the receiver to flow into the bellows when the top board is thrown up. The bellows is in this manner supplied with water from said receiver after the bellows is once filled through an opening closed by a plug, G. J designates a rosesprinkler, which is directed downward, and which is secured to a rigid pipe, j, the vertical portion of which is guided by a standard, K,

fixed to one end of the bellows. The lower end of the vertical portion of the pipe j communicates with the interior of the bellows by a flexible hose, L.

It will be seen from the above description an attendant can eject water in a spray from the nozzle J by simply operating the bellows with his foot.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a laundry-sprinkler, a bellows, having a treadle, D, and a water-receptacle, E, applied to it, in combination with the flexible hose L and the rose-sprinkler J, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY FISHER. Witnesses:

JOHN DEWING, JAMES N. Seor'r. 

